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Some of the most tense testimony comes from Marco Accetti, who claimed he was “the American,” or the man who called and talked to the Orlandi family early on to make the deal to free the Turkish would-be assassin of Pope John Paul II. “Purgatori sums up the central theme, that all the crimes tied to the conspiracies around Orlandi were committed “by the same people-the mafia-with the same target-the Vatican-and the same message: Give us back our money.””

At one point in the second episode, Purgatori sums up the central theme, that all the crimes tied to the conspiracies around Orlandi were committed “by the same people-the mafia-with the same target-the Vatican-and the same message: Give us back our money.” Lewis also relies on the charismatic Italian journalist Andrea Purgatori, who spent his career obsessing on the case, as his noble guide. In the unraveling of the conspiracies that don’t pan out, Lewis manages to tell several intricate stories that circle back around to sex, lies and God’s men on Earth to build a case that whoever kidnapped the teen did so to blackmail the Vatican. He also spent time with the aging mistress of the head of a Roman criminal gang known as the Banda della Magliana whose tomb was not-so-coincidentally in the same Opus Dei church where Orlandi disappeared. Interwoven into the four episodes are a sprinkling of murders and mafia, including the hanging death of “God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi (with rocks in his pockets no less) under a bridge in London, tied to the deceitful Machiavellian deeds of American cardinal Paul Marcinkus. Lewis also interviews a cast of characters that would make Federico Fellini proud, and who serve to underpin the inherent secrecy-driven corruption that has swirled around the Vatican for centuries.

“The story has a succession of theories, a succession of clues to work through.” “Crime stories like this have layers of journalism that get laid down like leaves,” he said. Lewis told The Daily Beast that sifting through a story with so many leads meant taking some distance. He also introduces a new witness who claims that Orlandi, who lived inside the Vatican fortress, was sexually assaulted by a cardinal and that the secret was used to blackmail the church. Tombs have been unearthed, gangsters’ lovers have been interviewed, and international terrorist plots parsed in trying to understand if Orlandi is alive, and, if not, who killed her and why.ĭirector Mark Lewis ( Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer) unveils a number of new pieces to the puzzle, including the rarely mentioned fact that Orlandi disappeared the day Pope John Paul II was in Poland addressing hordes of Solidarity followers (who were rumored to have been funded by Vatican money with ties to the mafia).

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The Daily Beast previewed-OK, binged-the four-part series ahead of its release Thursday, and no documentary to date cuts as close to the bone in the nearly 40-year-old cold case. But as Vatican Girl, a new Netflix docuseries on the case points out, “There are grains of truth in each theory, but all the roads lead to the Vatican.” Prime suspects? The KGB, the Italian mafia, the Russian mafia, Turkish terrorists, to name a few. ROME-There are few conspiracy theories that captivate conspiratorial Italians as much as the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee who vanished outside an Opus Dei church in 1983.